/lit/ - Literature

>>9100078
Yeah yeah everybody gets it, a pampered fat-fuck wearing a cape can understand the suffering- and therefore thinks they have the right to judge- a person who, lets say, was horrifically abused as a minor; oppressed as an adult; and/or developed a debilitating mental disorder such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, causing them to take their life when the pain got the better of them. This hapless individual surely deserves eternal damnation: their symbolic sense was simply not developed enough; logic be damned, it's just atheist talk.

>>8448462
> Large words

I mean, just, uhh...

/lit/, I don't normally make threads asking for recommendations but I don't know what to do. I cannot get into almost ANYTHING I read lately: got 50 pages from the end in Child of God and stopped caring. Got 80ish pages into Neuromancer and didn't care about the plot. Started reading American Pastoral and in about 50 pages decided I should probably be 50 years old to appreciate it.

The last thing I finished was Point Omega by Don Delillo and it was just alright.

I've read big-ass books before (BK, GR, IJ, etc.) so I know I can concentrate but lately I can't for some reason. I did recently switch to working graveyard shift so maybe that's fucking with my head.

I honestly don't even know what to ask for since I don't even know what I want right now.

The last books I've read over a few months that I actually enjoyed were The Cyberiad, Augustus, Stoner, The Forever War, Oedipis Rex, Mockingbird, and The Stars My Destination. Nothing over 400 pages would be ideal since I can't focus anymore ;_;

>tfw too depressed to even read

I'm feeling down. Any books about characters fighting through depressing situations?

My favorite examples would be Mockingbird and Stoner.

>>5644355

>>5563995
iktf

It's shit. I couldn't bring myself to read beyond a couple of paragraphs. The introduction is neither interesting or witty, and the writing itself is obfuscating and contrived. Is this the sort of shit I need to be writing if I want to be successful? If so I might as well just kill myself now.

>>5341413

oh my god... this is like a young kid came onto this board and is trying to act like us but doesn't understand the meaning behind what we say

this is... scary

>>4966627

>Is there a greater opening piece to a book in the history of literature?

Getting real tired of all these summer kids quipping about "the history of literature" after only reading a handful of books.

>>4920453
Yes, why not entirely disregard the rest of my post for the sake of flaunting your wit.

>>4886614
Shakespeare invented all of us, my dear.

>>4811046
Just like Tao right?

>tfw university library doesn't have any Tao Lin
>tfw first result in library search is "Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communications [electronic resource]
/ edited by Weisi Lin, Dacheng Tao, Janusz Kacprzyk, Zhu Li, Ebroul Izquierdo, Haohong Wang
Lin, Weisi"

>>4711319
>le anxiety of influence face

My dear, only the strong and patricidal shall emerge as the victors on the battleground of literature.

>"A tour de force"

goodreads.com/CoolnessIsHavingCourage

Here is mine. I just made it recently.

>>4645373

It's funposting, you killjoy.

>Death is not the End from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men